Dawn Brocco's Life & Design Blog

My husband isn't the only person in our family with which I share quick repartee. My daughter's another one.

She's an air sign, and I'm a fire sign, and despite the fact she keeps saying how fire signs (particularly Aries) get on her nerves (because we're so AR), she's managed to have a few friends along the way who are Aries. Interesting how that works!

So, today, I emailed her about a showing we had on Sunday:

"A couple came yesterday with a 3.5 year old, very talkative little girl who loved Pickles. She immediately sat down next to him and petted him, while saying that she wants a dog and she's gonna name it Red, cause red's her favorite color!

And she noticed the red glass in the front door sidelights and loved it. It was too funny."

To which she replied. "OMG... she's an Aries =P"
Me: "My thoughts exactly! I know - too many of us around!"
Her: "I think you should all be deported to Mars =P haha"
Me: "Then all you air signs should be sent up into the atmosphere to see what you can do about the global warming! lol."
Her: "We'll hold hands and fill the hole =P"
Me: "That sounds like a plan!"

Whilst I was sitting in my office, trying to do something productive, whilst the showing was taking place, I figured I'd save my email files and my website files to zips, as I do every few months. I should do it more often, and after what happened, I WILL be doing it more often, as I managed to delete the last 7 months of all my emails. The last time I backed up, it was May. They're only emails, but I felt bereft all afternoon and evening, mourning the loss of 7 months of carefully organized emails in 73 folders!

It happened so fast, and it's all this zip drive's fault. The connection is a bit wonky (I got it used) and it was during one of its wonky bouts, while I was deleting the old mail files off the zip, so there'd be room for the new mail files and moving the new files over, that it took them all and sent them into never-never land.

I'm gonna see to that today and figure out why it turns off all by itself.